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Re: [RFC] Make _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 default.
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, Denis Obrezkov <reprofy at etersoft dot ru>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:17:27 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Make _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 default.
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> On 03/05/2014 10:13 AM, Ond$,1 yej B,Amlka wrote:
>
> > Changing default would be better. I dig while how to do it and can not
> > find a nonugly solution. How should we do this?
>
> Isn't this a global ABI change? I don't think we can do this.
No, it's only an API change. But I'm not very sanguine about it anyway.